Only the US government is permitted to create currency
Nope.
The constitution prohibits the states from making a legal tender of anything other than gold or silver. It also authorizes the federal government to issue coinage. It has no prohibition at all on private parties making coinage or scrip.
Besides extending the Vietnam war, Dick also kicked the War on Drugs into high gear, and cut the dollar loose from its last ties to gold, setting off the stagflation of the 1970s.
I have a couple of friends working at a company called "EyeSee360". They make pano mirrors ranging from a small optic that snaps onto your iPhone, to serious pro rigs that you can attach to 4K video cameras like Red's new offerings. Google them.
The fourth amendment is not ambiguous, and any act of congress that purports to grant the authority to the FBI to write their own warrants is unconstitutional, and therefore not a law at all.
To make this stop, people have to refuse to comply with these “national security letters”, go to court, and sue the FBI for civil rights violations.
"Panzer tanks"? It's the same word repeated twice.
Nope. "Panzer" is not the German word for "Tank." It's grammatically to correct to say "Panzer tank" to distinguish a Panzer from a Tiger tank, for example.
Less work and big pay is what management is all about.
I don't know where you work, but in most of the companies I've ever worked for, the higher you go, the more you work. It's not at all uncommon for a senior manager or director at Apple to put in 60-hour weeks.
The housing bubble was a symptom, inflating the currency was the cause. When the Fed isn’t shitting out dollars to fund anything and everything the politicians want to do, there’s a self-correcting feedback loop between savings rates and interest rates. Higher interest rates indicate depletion of funds to lend, and also create an incentive to save. By holding interest rates artificially low for several decades, that information flow was broken, and housing happened to be the latest industry where the newly-inflated currency was seeping out.
I don't buy that argument. Market forces can't usefully hold the cost of education down.
They did exactly that until government guarantees made it possible for anyone to get student loans. By removing the risk of non-payment, the lenders had no incentive to consider whether the borrower was capable of repaying the loan.
The test results coming out of the suburbs are as good as anything anywhere on the planet.
I’ll need to see some proof of that claim. When I got to the USA for ninth grade, there were kids around me who couldn’t even read, and this was in Fairfax County, VA, one of the most affluent places in the country.
Note that I haven’t advocated handing out taxpayer money to anyone. Let me also point out that if the bible-thumpers win an election, then you lose and all the kids are subjected to being taught the hogwash.
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Only the US government is permitted to create currency
Nope.
The constitution prohibits the states from making a legal tender of anything other than gold or silver. It also authorizes the federal government to issue coinage. It has no prohibition at all on private parties making coinage or scrip.
-jcr
Besides extending the Vietnam war, Dick also kicked the War on Drugs into high gear, and cut the dollar loose from its last ties to gold, setting off the stagflation of the 1970s.
-jcr
No, the app you're talking about doesn't capture video.
-jcr
I have a couple of friends working at a company called "EyeSee360". They make pano mirrors ranging from a small optic that snaps onto your iPhone, to serious pro rigs that you can attach to 4K video cameras like Red's new offerings. Google them.
-jcr
...as if anyone didn't know it yet.
-jcr
The fourth amendment is not ambiguous, and any act of congress that purports to grant the authority to the FBI to write their own warrants is unconstitutional, and therefore not a law at all.
To make this stop, people have to refuse to comply with these “national security letters”, go to court, and sue the FBI for civil rights violations.
-jcr
It would pretty much put them out of business. No client wants a lawyer that’s been declared an asshole by the court.
-jcr
Ah, got it. The phase change draws heat from the liquid into the gas.
-jcr
In particular using vacuum to lower the temperature of liquid Nitrogen is pretty easy and gets you to 64K with the nitrogen still a liquid.
Wait, what? I would expect lower pressure to drop the boiling point of LN2, so how does that get you a colder liquid?
-jcr
Because it serves the purposes of the rulers who inflict it, obviously.
-jcr
Got anything else you want to pull out of your ass?
-jcr
The Ada Initiative takes the position that any sex content at a technical conference is out of bounds and hostile to women
Sorry, that’s absurd and highly patronizing.
-jcr
The court is part of the government. Do not expect them to uphold our rights.
-jcr
"Panzer tanks"? It's the same word repeated twice.
Nope. "Panzer" is not the German word for "Tank." It's grammatically to correct to say "Panzer tank" to distinguish a Panzer from a Tiger tank, for example.
-jcr
My guess is the spammers pay bribes.
-jcr
Making comments like "the bosses work so much harder" is really pretty effing stupid.
Not quite as stupid as trying to put words in my mouth.
-jcr
Less work and big pay is what management is all about.
I don't know where you work, but in most of the companies I've ever worked for, the higher you go, the more you work. It's not at all uncommon for a senior manager or director at Apple to put in 60-hour weeks.
-jcr
The good news is that Marxism is rarely fatal these days,
It's killing a hell of a lot of north Koreans every day.
-jcr
The executive doesn't make the laws, people. Read the constitution sometime.
-jcr
Coming soon: the Unquestioning Obedience Citation, awarded for not caring about legalities like declaring war.
-jcr
, they were also adding regulations, encouraging banks to make bad loans
More like, leaning on them and threatening bullshit lawsuits if they didn’t comply.
-jcr
The housing bubble was a symptom, inflating the currency was the cause. When the Fed isn’t shitting out dollars to fund anything and everything the politicians want to do, there’s a self-correcting feedback loop between savings rates and interest rates. Higher interest rates indicate depletion of funds to lend, and also create an incentive to save. By holding interest rates artificially low for several decades, that information flow was broken, and housing happened to be the latest industry where the newly-inflated currency was seeping out.
-jcr
I don't buy that argument. Market forces can't usefully hold the cost of education down.
They did exactly that until government guarantees made it possible for anyone to get student loans. By removing the risk of non-payment, the lenders had no incentive to consider whether the borrower was capable of repaying the loan.
-jcr
The test results coming out of the suburbs are as good as anything anywhere on the planet.
I’ll need to see some proof of that claim. When I got to the USA for ninth grade, there were kids around me who couldn’t even read, and this was in Fairfax County, VA, one of the most affluent places in the country.
-jcr
Note that I haven’t advocated handing out taxpayer money to anyone. Let me also point out that if the bible-thumpers win an election, then you lose and all the kids are subjected to being taught the hogwash.
-jcr